#041 May 1995

THE INTER-SOCIETY FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS
THE ISEA NEWSLETTER
#41 MAY 1995
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Editors: Dirk Boon, Wim van der Plas (Holland). Correspondents: Yoshiyuki
Abe (Japan), Ray Archee (Australia), Peter Beyls (Belgium), Leslie Bishko
(US/Canada), Paul Brown (Australia), Annick Bureaud (France), Jurgen Claus
(Germany), Roger Malina (US), Rejane Spitz (Brazil). Lay-out: Rene Pare
(Grafico de Poost). Text editors: Ray Archee, Seth Shostak.
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ISEA, POB 8656, 3009 AR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Tel/fax 31-10-4778605,
Email: ISEA@MBR.FRG.EUR.NL (Board) or ISEA@SARA.NL (Newsletter)
WWW URL http://www.xs4all.nl/~isea
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CONTENTS
EDITORIAL . ISEA95 . MetaForum II . INTERFACE 3 . VIRTUAL HUMAN BODY .
PUBLICATIONS . WWW . CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION . CALENDAR
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EDITORIAL
Wim van der Plas
For the first time the content of the hard copy of this newsletter differs
from the version that was sent by E-mail. Around May 1st we distributed a
special edition of the newsletter in an electronic version only.
The reason for this is simple: it takes much more time and effort to produce
and mail the hard copy. Since there were several interesting announcements
and calls for participation with imminent deadlines, in addition to the fact
that we wanted to redistribute the program outline of ISEA'95 as quickly
as possible, we elected to produce the special. This case proves that it is
worthwhile to get access to the net irrespective of the trendyness and hype
surrounding the recent world-wide "discovery" of the Internet.
It has taken some time but we finally have our own home page on the World
Wide Web, thanks to Dirk Boon. It contains the General Information on the
Inter-Society, information on ISEA Symposia, links to the current, last and
next symposium (or symposia) and last month's ISEA newsletter, as well as
most of the preceding newsletters. We are not putting the current newsletter
on the Web, because that is a privilege for ISEA members only. Our Web site
will soon serve as a mirror-site for Paul Brown's Fine Art Forum. For our WWW
address, see above.
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ISEA-JP
ISEA-Japan (Yoshiuki Abe) has a new address. Information on ISEA and
ISEA '95 can be obtained in Japanese.
Yoshiyuki Abe, 1-29-1-503 Minami-Karasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157, Japan.
Tel/fax: 81-3-3290-9294, E-mail: y.abe@isea.or.jp
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ISEA 95
This message is from ISEA 95 Montreal (the 6th International Symposium on
Electronic Art). ISEA 95 Montreal is a non-profit organisation which is
presenting the largest ever meeting of the international media arts
community (video, interactive computer art, virtual reality,
electroacoustics, etc...) in Montreal, Canada from September 17 to 24,
1995.
We would like to know if you would like to receive information about
ISEA 95 Montreal by email :
- a 2 page Press Release (in English or in French), with a summary of the
event and a program outline;
and/or
- a 7 page Background Information document (in English or in French),
with details on the "who, why, where" of the event.
A colour Event Outline/Poster (including the registration form) is
available by snail mail upon request . You can also access this
information by consulting our home page on the WWW at
< http://isea95.comm.uqam.ca/isea95.html >.
For those of interested in joining our ISEA 95 Montreal listserver, you
can join by sending email to : < MAJORDOMO@pd.org >, leave Subject heading
blank and write SUBSCRIBE ISEA95.
Thank You,
A bientot,
Claude Schryer
Communications, ISEA 95 Montreal
ISEA95
#310-307, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada H2X 2A3
Tel 1-514-9900229, Fax 8427459, Email isea95@er.uqam.ca
ftp/gopher isea95.comm.uqam.ca
WWW http://isea95.comm.uqam.ca/isea95.html
list-e ISEA95@pd.org
To subscribe to the ISEA95_Montreal mailing list, send the message:
Pour s'inscrire a la liste d'ISEA95_Montreal, envoyez le message:
"SUBSCRIBE ISEA95"
with no subject header to: sans entete de sujet a:
< MAJORDOMO@pd.org >
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MetaForum II: NO BORDERS - Budapest networking conference
Forwarded by Geert Lovink
Networking has played a role in the evolution of human culture since humans
have been communicating: economy, language, religion, roads, postal
systems, telephones, radio, and television all function as networks. Modern
technology has enhanced networking to a point where infomation is
transferred at nearly the speed of electrons, theoretically the speed of
light...
As networking via the computer becomes more common, certain borders seem to
disappear while others emerge just as quickly in the form of parameters on
the technology, bandwidths and access. Technology is tearing down
longstanding artistic and creative borders and forcing artists and critics
to question and form new ones. Networking has arrived at the threshold of
the global society.
Given the importance of these issues, MetaForum II / NO BORDERS / Budapest
Networking Conference will comprise artists, computer experts and
enthusiasts, media experts, theoreticians, and writers, and provide an
opportunity to examine the nature of networking, as well as place
networking within a historical context, and discuss its future potential.
The title, NO BORDERS, refers to the key themes of the conference: how
networking defines and transcends borders; geographic, linguistic and
technical, and who controls and enforces these borders.
Lectures, workshops, and presentations will be conducted by an array of
national and international guests. In keeping with the spirit of MetaForum
94, NO BORDERS will create a platform for the dissection and discussion of
networking and the implications of the incredible impact it has had and
will continue to have on the way humans communicate. As the world undergoes
a transition to a global culture, every country, including Hungary, must
participate in the creation of that culture, if it is to be truly global.
NO BORDERS, organized by the Media Research Foundation and the Intermedia
Department of the Hungarian Fine Arts Academy, will take place on October
6th, 7th, & 8th, 1995, at the Academy of Fine Arts as a part of Budapest's
annual Autumn Festival of the Arts.
Conference topics
1. The sociology of the network
(network etiquette, customs, spoken vs. written language, privacy vs. free
access, protection of data, copyrights, crime, games)
2. Cyber-democracy
( network politics, the information economy, censorship, hyper-democracy,
lobby and interest groups, populism and solidarity in the network)
3. Analogous networks
(Mail Art, the postal system, telephones, the railway, electricity,
highways, canals).
In addition to the lectures, workshops, and presentations, audience access
to the internet will be provided through on-site computer terminals, as
well as computer links to other locations throughout Hungary. No Borders
will conclude with a teleconference between the audience and guests, and
the McLuhan Center in Toronto, Canada.
Goals
1) to provide information and real on-line experience to the audience.
2) to establilsh a dialogue concerning the present and future implications
of networking culture, both nationally and internationally.
3) to provide Hungarians working with, or interested in, networking
technology, the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with national and
international experts.
organizers
Diana McCarty, Geert Lovink, Janos Sugar,
Katalin Timar, Agnes Veronika Kovacs, Nina Czegledy
Technical Support: Steven Carlson, Zoltan Szegedy-Maszak
MetaForum 94
MetaForum 94 was designed to stimulate growth and interest in new
interactive technology such as CD-ROM, Hypertext, Internet and World Wide
Web, as well as provide a platform for discussion. The invited guests
included Heath Bunting, Gyorgy Kabdebo, George Legrady, Andras Nyiro,
Salvatore Vanasco, VPRO television Netherlands, as well as many others. In
addition to the lectures, workshops and discussions conducted by the
guests, there was an on-site CD-ROM Library. MetaForum 94 was sponsored by
Apple, the British Council, and The Goethe Institute, and took place in
October of 1994 as a part of Budapest's annual Aututmn Festival
of the Arts.
Media Research Foundation
The Media Reserach Foundation was officially founded in 1990, by a group of
artists, historians, and theroticians dedicated to art, culture, and new
technology. Since its founding, the MRF has organized and participated in
various art events and conferences; The Media Are With us-The role of
television in the Romanian revolution, 1990; Linz Ars Electronica Introduces
Itself, 1993; MetaForum 94, an international conference on multimedia. The
MRF has also actively supported artists working with new media, and the
Intermedia Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest. Cultural
foundations that have provided sponsorship of these events have included
The British Council, The Dutch Embassy, The French Institute, The Austrian
Cultural Institut, The Goethe Institute and the Soros SCCA.
Intermedia Department
The Intermedia Department, which has been active since the political
changes in 1990, gained offical status as a department in 1992 at the 150
year old Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Since its realization, the
department has encouraged students to explore new media and has provided
them with a number of international lecturers and visting professors.
Autumn Festival
Budapest's annual Autumn Festival of the Arts presents national and
international contemporary Arts including; music, theatre, dance, fine arts,
film, literature, intermedial works, as well as a signifigant selection of
independent, alternative, and experimental works. The two week festival
begins in late September and ends in October.
contact:
No Borders c/o Katalin Timr
Pozsonyi 33/a
H-1137 Budapest/Hungary
Email: intermed@ind.eunet.hu
dia@szocio.tgi.bme.hu
meta4um@desk.nl
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INTERFACE 3: LABILE ORDNUNGEN / DELICATE CONSTRUCTIONS
Internationales Symposium
Ueber die Kultur der Computernetze
On cultural aspects of computer networks
Hamburg, Germany
1- 3 November 1995
The international data networks and global electronic communications
are also becoming increasingly meaningful in Germany: Newspapers are
reporting, television programs are pulling these themes into their
agendas, the 'Datenautobahn' is finding it's way into the daily
vocabulary. The networks are expanding and are beginning to integrate
more and more participants. Political promises and economic interests
are found around every corner: 'Video on demand', interactive
television, multimedia communications, or even the paradise of
'Cyberspace' are the keywords with which consumers are lured as future
beneficiaries. But insecurities concerning the future social, cultural,
and political meaning of expanded communicative relations are growing
parallel to these developments.
INTERFACE 3 witholds from this euphoria and brushes off the image of
a sales fair of new products and services. The symposium will instead
meet the hectic activity in an invitation to reflect and discuss, upon
a high niveau, the phenomena at hand.
The philosophical, aesthetic, and ethical foundations within the
three salons of the symposium (Thinking Networks - Circulating Art -
Commitments) build the center of INTERFACE 3. Of utmost importance in
this discussion is the movement beyond the borders. From a variety of
lands, natural scientists, engineers, arts and humanitie= s minded, and
critics, will mutually debate the present and future of technically
mediated communications and trace out initiatives and criteria toward
an emancipatory practice.
Director and presentation Geert Lovink, Amsterdam
Consulting Siegfried Zielinski, Koeln
Promotor Kulturbehoerde Hamburg
Venue Suedliche Markthalle Klosterwall 23, D-20095, Hamburg, Germany
Wednesday November 1, 1995
Thinking networks
- Roland Alton-Scheidl, Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Interaktive Sprach- und Faxdienste als sozialvertraegliche Netzwerke -
- Olaf Breidbach, Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Institut fuer Mathematik
Neuronale Netze
- Volker Grassmuck, University of Tokyo
On the Typology of the Hacker in Japan
- Pattie Maes, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts Agents ALIVE
- Peter Matussek, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin/Kulturwissenschaften
Durch die Maschen. Die Vernetzung des kulturellen Gedaechtnisses und
ihre Erinnerungsluecken
- Wolfgang Schirmacher The New School of Social Research, New York
Netzwelt von innen. Eine Medienphilosophie des Zwischen
- Gregory L. Ulmer, University of Florida, Dep.of English, Gainesville
Electeracy. Toward an Electronic Literacy
Diskussion panel
Real and virtual cities
Moderation: Florian Roetzer
Evening lecture
- Ted Nelson Sapporo HyperLab
The Search for a Stable Literature
Thursday November 2, 1995
Circulating art
- Kurd Alsleben, Hochschule fuer bildende Kuenste, Hamburg
Telematische Ars Sermonis
- Eduardo Kac, University of Kentucky, College of Fine Arts, Lexington
The Internet and the future art: immateriality, telematics,
videoconferencing, hypermedia, networking, interactivity, visual
telephony, artist's software, telerobotics, and beyond
- Matthias Lehnhardt, Hochschule fuer bildende Kuenste, Hamburg/Hugo
Schmale, Universitaet Hamburg, Psychologisches Institut
Spitze Zungen - KonversationsKunst oder Datensumpf
- Gerard Mermoz, Coventry University, School of Art and Design
The Body of the Text: Typographic Interface and Interactive Reading
- Alla Mitrofanova, Art Critic Center, St. Petersburg
Communication as a Different Concept
- Caroline Guyer
Buze-Daze Jazz
- Diskussion panel
Net art
Evening lecture
- Marilouise und Arthur Kroker, Concordia University, Montreal/
Steve Gibson (music)
Hacking the Future
Friday November 3, 1995
Commitments
- Hans Christian Dany Hamburg
Multiple Persoenlichkeiten
- Tim Druckrey, New York
Conservative Network Trends
- Alluquere Roseanne Stone, University of Texas, Department of Radio-
Television-Film, Austin
Multiple Personalities
- Peter Lamborn Wilson
CyberGnosis (TM)
- Siegfried Zielinski, Kunsthochschule fuer Medien, Koeln
Heterogenitaet und Universalisierung
Panel
Net critics
With: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Language
Interface 3 will be presented in german and english.
Net cafe
During the Interface 3 - Conference, the Interface 3 - Network will be
present through various terminals placed throughout the location of the
event. The discussion tracts will cross-road in the net-cafe. This will
offer not only culinary appetizers but also an entry point for the
public to the Conference and the Internet. Guided Tours e.g. the visit
of Network-Projects or Participants will introduce the networld. An
own course of events will be developed. Discussion groups, which may
build after a lecture, can naturally enter into and utilize the network
infrastructure. People from outside are invited to join the
discussions about the interface-topics. World Wide Web, MOO, E-mail,
Chat, NewsGroups and FTP will be available.
Participation
All the Interface 3 events are open to the public. Tickets are
available either at the Interface 3 ticket counter or previous ticket
arrangements. Please use the enclosed ticket form or contact:
Interface 3 office Studio Andreas Heller Telefon/Fax (+49 40) 47 09 68
(intermediate programme)
Documentations
Documentations of Interface 1 and Interface 2 published by Klaus Peter
Dencker are available in german: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut Heimhuder
Strasse 21, D-20148 Hamburg, Germany
Tel 49-40-447033 Fax 417870
On the occasion of INTERFACE 3
1.11. - 3.12.1995
Exhibition in the Kunstverein Delicate Constructions - The idea of
networks indicates a significant change in our culture. A new idea of
authorship, of the subject, is emer- ging; chance and necessity, means
and ends - terms defining our thinking - are transforming. Electronic
media contribute in a crucial way to this development. The exhibition
at the Kunstverein wants to visualize this process. Digital
artwork will be in dialogue with "analogue" ones of more traditional
artistic media.
Exhibition in the Kunsthaus - The Hamburger Kunsthaus is
planning, in cooperation with Ludwig Seyfarth, an exhibition "The
Picturesque Network", which will question the visual imagination of
electronic media and networks. The artistic reflection of electronic
communications has lead to a more or less language based orientation
upon social and scientific discourses. In contrast to this, will
emphasize the investigation of existing network imageconcepts and the
roles they play. Rather than a concentration on "Computer art", the
"imaginary competence" of digital communications will be the subject
of debate.
INTERFACE 3 COORDINATING ENTITIES
Interface 3 e-mail: interface3@hfbk.uni-hamburg.de
Interface 3 WWW link: http://www.hfbk.uni-hamburg.de/interface3/link.html
*Interface 3 organization & administration*
Studio Andreas Heller GmbH
Agnesstrasse 8, 22301 Hamburg, Germany
Tel.: 49-40-462051, Fax: 476662
*Interface 3 conference moderator*
Geert Lovink, P.O.Box 10591, 1001 EN Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tel./Fax: 31-20-6203297, e-mail: geert@xs4all.nl
*Interface 3 network moderators*
Telematic Workgroup, School of Fine Arts Hamburg (HfbK)
Lerchenfeld 2, 22081 Hamburg, Germany
Tel.: 49-40-2984-2586, Fax: 2279
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VIRTUAL HUMAN BODY
A CU-SeeMe, Internet-Based Performance of the Human Body --QQ> Technology
A 24-HOUR PERFORMANCE was held on Wednesday, May 17, 1995 on the EDEN MATRIX
Reflector: 199.171.21.8 available using CU-SEEME Internet teleconferencing
software.
For more information about this performance, try the performance Homepage:
http://yar.cs.wisc.edu/~void other queries, send email to:
void@picard.cs.wisc.edu or call: 1-608-2572326
For information about CU-SeeMe, free video/audio Internet teleconferencing
software, explore the CU-SeeMe Homepage at: http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu
To download CU-SeeMe software, ftp to: CU-SeeMe.cornell.edu/pub/CU-SeeMe
The VIRTUAL HUMAN BODY is a 24-hour live Performance Art event created and
performed exclusively on the Internet. It involves the broadcast of digital
video/audio data over the Internet and can be experienced anywhere on the
planet that supports an Internet connection and can run CU-SeeMe
teleconferencing software.
This performance was broadcast on the EDEN MATRIX multiconferencing reflector
site. You can reach the EDEN MATRIX Homepage @ http://www.eden.com/
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PUBLICATIONS
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WELCOME TO eMUSIC!
eMUSIC is a program of Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), a not-for-profit
organization in New York State, USA. EMF exists to disseminate information
and materials related to the history and current development of electronic
music.
eMUSIC is a new worldwide service that -- for the first time -- gives you
easy, direct-mail access to any and all compact discs of experimental,
exceptional, and/or electronic music. Wherever you live, eMUSIC brings you
CDs that may be hard to find, discs published by small companies or
independent composers, even recordings you may not have known existed.
If you're a composer, compact discs of your works will be available through
eMUSIC. If you're a listener, eMUSIC gives you immediate access to some of
the world's most interesting music. If you're both -- well, better yet!
How does it work? Every month or so we'll send you a brief catalog of
selected discs available through eMUSIC. You'll find electronic music
history, unusual sounds, new ways of combining words and music, new
approaches to improvisation, computer music, interactive music, portraits of
composers, 20th-century virtuosi...and more! Our goal is to make available
every disc of experimental, exceptional, and electronic music -- in short,
eMUSIC.
In this introductory catalog, we're setting the tone (so to speak). You'll
find compact discs from the United States, Canada, France, Australia,
Germany, and Switzerland. You'll find two unusual packages representing the
two first European studios of the 1950s: a definitive collection of Pierre
Schaeffer's work in musique concrete and a collection of Stockhausen's early
work in Cologne. And you'll find a special offer.
But if you don't find what you're looking for, just ask for it.
A selection of the discs:
-THE ART OF THE THEREMIN
First demonstrated in 1920, the Theremin is played by moving one's hands in
the air.
-PIERRE SCHAEFFER: MUSICAL WORKS
The definitive collection, including 'Etude aux Chemins de Fer' ('Railroad
Study', 1948).
-STOCKHAUSEN: ELEKTRONISHE MUSIK 1952-1960
Includes 'Etude' (1952), composed at Pierre Schaeffer's studio in Paris.
-ELECTRO ACOUSTIC MUSIC CLASSICS
Includes Edgard Varese' 'Poeme Electronique' (1957).
-ROARATORIO
One of John Cage's big big big works, composed in 1979.
-FORBIDDEN PLANET
The original 1956 soundtrack to MGM's 'Forbidden Planet' by Louis and Bebe
Barron. One of the first electronic film tracks.
-JAMES TENNEY: SELECTED WORKS 1961-1969
Tenney began at Bell Labs at the dawn of computer music.
-RISSET
Classics of elegant computer music. Includes 'Inharmonique' (1977).
-JOHN CHOWNING
Breakthrough moments in computer music, including 'Sabelithe' (1966)
-MORTON SUBOTNICK: TOUCH
Subotnick was there to play the first Buchla synthesizer in 1963.
-TERRY RILEY: IN C
A fabulous performance of music that changed the world.
-TRANSPARENCE, Marc Battier
-KURT SCHWITTERS: URSONATE
-THE HUB: COMPUTER NETWORK MUSIC
-THE VIRTUOSO IN THE COMPUTER AGE (II), Music from five US studios.
-SEAMUS selection, compiled by the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the
United States.
-FRANCOIS BAYLE: FABULAE
-DEXTER MORRILL: GETZ VARIATIONS
-NEIL ROLNICK: MACEDONIAN AIR DRUMMING
-BOB WILLEY: PEACE PIECES
etc., etc.
For a Catalogue, info on how to order etc:
eMUSIC, 116 North Lake Avenue, Albany NY 12206, USA
Tel.: 1-518-434-4110, Fax 0308
Email: eMusc@aol.com
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COMPUTER ART 94
In 1994 and 1995 the traveling show of the competition Computerkunst/Computer
Art '94" covered venues in Gladbeck, Ibbenburen, Dresden and Karlsruhe in
Germany. Besides several German and international computer artists the prize
winners of the Golden Plotter'94 were represented with their works of art:
Roman Verostko from the US was elected by the jury for his works in classical
plotting art stemming from calligraphical roots, while Christof Schlager from
Germany was chosen for the other half of the prize for his special
performance of 'Schellenbaum und Luft', an installation with computer aided
partiture. The accompanying catalog of the exhibition contains essays and
images and biographical notes of all participants from Europe and overseas.
Price: US$ 25 or DM 30
Send cheque to:
Museum der Stadt Gladbeck, Burgstrasse 64, D-45964 Gladbeck, Germany,
mentioning 'Computerkunst'
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LEONARDO DIGITAL REVIEWS
Call for Music/Sound-Related Publications---Physical and Virtual---for Review
in Leonardo Digital Reviews
Leonardo Digital Reviews (LDR) is an electronic journal published by the MIT
Press as a section of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac and the Leonardo WWW
site. It publishes reviews of an unlimited range of subjects, including
books, periodicals, CD-ROMs, CDIs, WWW sites, conferences, events and
concerts. Its focus is on new developments in the arts, sciences and
technologies. LDR is interested in reviewing all new forms of sonic
expression.
Musicians, composers and publishers interested in seeing their works or
products reviewed by Leonardo Digital Reviews' expert review panel should
send items (physical) to
Leonardo
236 West Portal Avenue, #781
San Francisco, CA 94127
U.S.A.
or (if electronic/virtual) to: davinci@uclink.berkeley.edu.
The Leonardo World Wide Web site is located at
http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo/home.html.
To obtain information on how to subscribe to Leonardo Digital Reviews, email
isast@mercury.sfsu.edu.
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EMF Flash #1
May 8, 1995
This is the first of occasional news flashes from Electronic Music
Foundation. We'll send these to our Subscribers, customers, and affiliates
when we believe there's something especially interesting and timely to
report.
We'd like to point your attention to an online music-event calendar created
and maintained by Automatrix, Inc. Anyone anywhere in the world can enter
and retrieve information concerning concerts anywhere in the world,
categorized by place, time and type.
The calendar's WWW url is:
http://www.automatrix.com/concerts/
Alternatively, send electronic mail to: concerts@calendar.com
and send the message < help > if you want online instructions or < faq > if you
want answers to frequently asked questions.
We're not directly involved in the calendar, but we believe it has terrific
potential.
Electronic Music Foundation
116 North Lake Avenue, Albany NY 12206, USA
Tel: 1-518-4344110, Fax: 1-518-4340308, E-mail: EMusF@aol.com
Electronic Music Foundation is a not-for-profit organization in the State of
New York, USA.
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WORLD WIDE WEB
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DAD@
DAD@ is an international collaborative art project by Merja Puustinen and
Andy Best from Helsinki, Finland, together with partners Mark Gaynor in
London and Kostia Tenev and Alla Mitraphanova in St. Petersburg.
DAD@ is an investigation into the Utopian ideals surrounding the growth
of the Net, dealing with questions of access, identity, and personal
freedoms.
DAD@ consists of the World Wide Web site URL:
http://www.kaapeli.fi/~best/dada1.html
and a physical installation and video conference performance at Timewave
Zero, a festival of technoculture in Gothenburg, Sweden 20.-28.5.95. The
performance on Saturday 27 May will link the three cities Gothenburg,
London, and St. Petersburg via video, and will simultaneously be
broadcast on the Internet Mbone (please check the Mbone Session Directory
for further information).
DAD@ is open for anyone on the Net (or via fax) to contribute ideas or
comments on cyber-utopias, neural evolution, body improvements, or any
other related topics. You can also contribute still images, videos, or
sound. All material used by us will include the author/artist's
name/e-mail address.
You may also contact us during the performance via e-mail or fax,or on
the Mbone: Saturday 27 May 1400 CET
URL: http://www.kaapeli.fi/~best/dada1.html
Fax: before 18.5.95: +358-0-625376 ;19.-28.5.95, +46-31-127804
Tel: +358-0-6949348, E-mail: ampcom@katto.kaapeli.fi
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WWW: Electronic Museum of Mail Art
This is to notify you that as of April 5, 1995 I established The Electronic
Museum of Mail Art (EMMA) as a Dartmouth College site on the World Wide Web.
The main entrance WWW URL address for EMMA is:
(http://mmm.dartmouth.edu/pages/user/cjkid/EMMA)
A current exhibition invitation is listed there in the Artistamp Gallery.
Theme of exhibit is "Cyberstamps." Deadline is November 1, 1995.
(http://mmm.dartmouth.edu/pages/user/cjkid/ArtistampGallery)
Other sites include the EMMA Library
(http://mmm.dartmouth.edu/pages/user/cjkid/EMMAlibrary)
The Emailart Gallery (honoring the late Ray Johnson)
(http://mmm.dartmouth.edu/pages/user/cjkid/EmailartGallery)
The Emailart Directory:
(http://mmm.dartmouth.edu/pages/user/cjkid/EmailartDirectory)
.....and other interesting sites + current information about the Networker
Telenetlink-a four year project bridging the international mail art community
with telematic network artists.
Chuck Welch, a.k.a. Crackerjack Kid
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CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION
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CALL FOR MULTIMEDIA TITLES * CALL FOR MULTIMEDIA TITLES *
Mediamatic is editing a book for: Thames and Hudson, London / New York * BIS
Publishers, Amsterdam * Bangert Verlag, Muenchen
Multimedia Graphics 1 will be a high-production-value book withan overview of
the very best examples of current Multi Media design in the world. The
emphasis will be on Screen Design (it'll be a BOOK you know...)
It will be an exciting reference work for professionals in the field of
design and media as well as a very attractive showcase for the general
public.
Publishing date: Fall 1995. DEADLINE for proposals: May 21 1995.
(We don't know how hard the deadline is, ed.)
We're looking especially for new/hot/fancy stuff (arty, industrial, games,
referenceworks etc) with exellent innovative design. It doesn't need to be
published yet, but it should be material that will be published eventually.
Send samples and prototypes to:
Mediamatic, MMgraphics, Postbus 1749, 1001 JL Amsterdam.
or, only if you're using an other carrier than regular mail: to
Mediamatic, Prins Hendrikkade 192, 1011 TD Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
for more information send mail to jorinde@mediamatic.nl (Jorinde Seijdel)
and check http://mmwww.xs4all.nl/Consultancy/Bis/BisCall.html
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NEW VOICES, NEW VISIONS
A collaboration of Interval Research Corporation and The Voyager Company
A CALL FOR ENTRIES
OBJECTIVE: to support creative people using computers for original works.
Three Awards of Merit $5,000 Each.
DEADLINE: Saturday, July 15, 1995.
Results will be announced in September 1995.
Entry Requirements:
Digital works that can be sent in their entirety, any subject, no
installations.
JURY
Tina Blaine ("Bean"), Steven Cantor, bell hooks, Susan Meiselas,
Mark Pellington, Louis Psihoyos, Bruce Sterling, Jane Wagner
DO NOT ENTER THIS CONTEST IF YOU WANT HOME SHOPPING, ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND VIDEO
GAMES TO DEFINE THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
As the personal computer comes of age, it has evolved into an essential tool
for film makers, writers, musicians, animators, photographers and designers.
As the artistic community becomes more intrigued and integrated with the
available technology, we are witnessing the birth of a new genre: works
created expressly for the computer.
Last year more than 2,000 people from around the world responded to our call
for entries and 550 of them sent their work for review. The winning pieces
were shown to a sell-out audience at the New York Video Festival and were
exhibited for two weeks at Stanford University. We are again seeking digital
works from the creative community.
TO ENTER New Voices, New Visions
We need three items postmarked or received online by July 15, 1995:
1) an ENTRY FORM (see below) sent by post or electronically.
2) a representative STILL in TIFF, PICT, GIF, or Photoshop format for
possible publication. Also sent by post or electronically.
3) your PIECE sent through the postal service on a digital storage medium.
OR
we will attempt to retrieve it from the FTP location you provide on your
entry form.
For Web-based entries, an externally accessible URL is sufficient (accessible
July 15 - September 30).
Our email address for this document is: info@nvnv.org
Our email address to send entry forms is: entry@nvnv.org
For comments and questions send email to: staff@nvnv.org
Or contact us by fax or voice: Fax: 1-415-855-0788, Tel: 1-415-855-0780
Our postal mail address is:
New Voices, New Visions c/o Interval Research Corporation
1801 Page Mill Road, Building C, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
ENTRY GUIDELINES
General:
- Keep a copy of everything you send.
- Label all materials with your name and the title of your entry.
- Valid entries must run on a computer and be sent in a computer format;
please do not send videotape or slides.
- Entries will be reviewed on-screen in 24 bit color, at 72 dpi resolution,
unless noted differently in "Instructions for viewing or execution" on the
entry form.
- If you would like your entry returned, include a self-addressed label.
- Take care to include all required data files. (If possible, try running it
yourself on a different machine).
- Do not send password-protected files.
- NVNV is not responsible for lost items or technical problems beyond our
control.
- We will do our best to access and review your entry.
- Early entries are appreciated!
Digital media:
- Floppy diskettes: maximum 10 per entry.
- Cartridges: Syquest are preferred.
- DAT: include catalog.
- CD-ROM: include directory.
Online:
- URLs for Web entries must be accessible from July 15 through September 30,
1995.
- FTP sites will be accessed within three weeks of receiving completed entry
form.
Other:
- Director work: provide in "projector" format.
- Still images: maximum 5 per entry.
Parts of this contest are experimental. In the event that it is necessary to
update these guidelines, you will be notified automatically.
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DEADLINES
Postmark July 15, 1995.
or
Email to entry@nvnv.org received by midnight, Pacific Standard Time, July 15,
1995.
Please provide your information after the colons (:).
We require all items flagged with an asterisk (*) and appreciate
any others that are applicable.
*First name:
*Last Name:
Affiliation:
*Address line 1:
Address line 2:
Address line 3:
*City:
State:
*Postal Code:
*Country:
*Telephone 1:
Telephone 2:
Fax:
Email:
*How did you hear about NVNV?:
Newsgroup (Which?):
Personal Email (Explain):
Advertisement (Where?):
Postal Mail:
Other (Explain):
*Title of Entry:
*By:
Size in MB:
Hardware platform (PC, SGI, Macintosh...):
Software platform (Director, WWW, custom code...):
*File name of representative still:
*File Format for still (TIFF, PICT, GIF...):
Web URL:
FTP host name:
FTP user name (anonymous?):
FTP password (if anonymous, we will use staff@nvnv.org):
FTP directory/file to retrieve:
Description:
*Instructions for viewing or execution: (The more information you
provide, the more likely the jury will experience your entry at
its best.)
By using this form to enter New Voices, New Visions, I AGREE TO THE
FOLLOWING.
I own the copyright to this work and will receive credit wherever this work
is used. My work and my name may be used to promote the New Voices, New
Visions contest and in exhibits which may result from this contest. Images
and technical descriptions of my work may appear in materials associated
with such exhibits.
EMAIL: to receive this document-- info@nvnv.org
to send completed entry form-- entry@nvnv.org
to send comments and questions-- staff@nvnv.org
FAX: 415-855-0788
TEL: 415-855-0780
POST: New Voices, New Visions, c/o Interval Research Corporation
1801 Page Mill Road, Building C, Palo Alto, California 94304 USA
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ONE MINUTE WORLD FESTIVAL
November 1995
Works may be made with any equipment which can produce moving images. The
minimum permitted length of each work is 01 second and the maximum, 60
seconds.
Theme: "Eyes on the City"
Seperate category:
Work by children under 12.
Special show:
Owing to the fact that the event is connected to the preparations for the
Habitat II conference (on the future of the cities), the festival wants to
receive works with length superior to 1 minute in any format, including
CD-ROM, but which must necessarily talk about the theme "Eyes on the City".
Network:
In the last week of November a network of 100 cities will be formed to
exhibit the One Minute Festival.
Deadline:
July 30, 1995
For info and an entry form:
Agencia Observatorio
Rua Professor Rubiao Meira, 50
Sao Paulo - SP, Brasil Cep 05409-020
Tel/fax 55-11-8512846
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AV EXPERIMENTAL
November 9 - 15, 1995
Arnhem, Holland
AVE is an international festival for audiovisual experimental
arts. AVE will present films, videos, installations,
performances, audio art and other art works. It aims at
stimulating the new and investigative use of time based electric,
electronic or visual mediums in modern art practice. AVE also
actively stimulates dialogue between artists, critics and
audience.
AVE has free participation and free entrance.
Deadline for entries July 1st.
Entryforms and info:
AVE, POB 307, 6800 AH Arnhem, Netherlands
Tel 31-85-511300, fax 517681
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CYBERFEMINISM
Mediaworks by Nancy Paterson
April 23 - May 28 1995, Petersborough, Canada
Nice little catalogue available. Nancy Paterson can be reached:
Tel 1-416-6213290, fax 6036567, email nancy@utcc.utoronto.ca
The Art Gallery of Petersborough
2 Crescent St., Petersborough, Ontario K9J 2G1, Canada.
MONTEVIDEO EXHIBITIONS
May: Christian Zwanikken "Re-Animations"
June: Rico Pronk
July: Atsushi Ogata / C.M. Judge
August: Patrick Burgeaud
Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Spuistraat 104 Amsterdam Holland
Tel 31-20-6237101, fax 6244423, Email info@montevideo.xs4all.nl
BABBAGE DREAMS
May 16 - June 11 1995, Groningen, Holland
Exhibition curated by Frits Maats and Henriette Kind. Charles Babbage
(1792-1871) was the 'avant-la-lettre' inventor of the computer.
Works by Kees Aafjes, Peter Bogers, Theo Jansen, Jaap de Jonge, Gerald van
der Kaap/Peter Giele, Frits Maats, Anthony Pasqual, Bill Spinhoven, Tony
Thijssen and Giny Vos. Opening performances by Arthur Elsenaar, Fred Kolman
and Klarenz Barlow.
Open Tuesday-Friday 10-17 hrs, Sat-Sun 13-17 hrs.
Catalogue and CD ROM will appear on the occasion.
Centrum Beeldende Kunst,
Trompsingel 27, 9724 DA Groningen, Holland
STEIM
Concert series 'Between the Ears'
May 25, 9.p.m.
Alvin Lucier with the Barton Workshop.
Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam, Holland
Tel 31-20-6228690
VIRTUAL FUTURES 1995
May 26 - 28 1995, Conventry, England, UK.
Info: VF95, The Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, University
of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England, UK.
Tel: 44-203-523523, Fax: 523019, Email: virtual_futures@warwick.ac.uk
MULTIMEDIA 95
May 31 - June 3 1995, Toronto, Canada
Conference May 31- June 3, Trade show June 1 - 3.
Keynote addresses (free to all visitors) will be given by James Clark
(founder of Silicon Graphics and now with Netscape Communications, the
programmers of the Internet tool, Mosaic), Fred Klinkhammer of MediaLinx and
Satjiv Chahil of Apple Computer.
Info: Multimedia Trade Shows Inc., 7-70 Villarboit Crescent, Concord,
ON, Canada, L4K 4C7. Tel 1-905-660249-1, fax -2
KLANGART'95
June 7 - 10 1995, Osnabrueck, Germany.
This unique cultural event covers all aspects of "music and electronics"
including a scientific congress, the Musitec and the "Festival" with a series
of concerts and performances.
For a complete programme contact:
KlangArt, P.O.Box 4460, 49034 Osnabrueck, Germany.
Tel: 49-541-24960, Fax: 49-541-24913,
Email: kschwirz@rzserv.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.de
ACMA CONFERENCE 1995
June 9 - 11 1995, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Conference of the Australian Computer Music Association.
Info: ACMA 1995 Conference, PO Box 186, Post Office Agency, La Trobe
University, Bundoora 3083, Victoria, Australia.
ED-MEDIA 95
June 18 - 21 1995, Graz, Austria
World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
Papers, short papers, panels, tutorials, workshops, demonstration, posters
Info: ED-MEDIA 95/AACE, P.O. Box 2966, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA.
Tel: 1-804-973-3987, Fax: 1-804-9787449, E-mail: AACE@Virginia.Edu
ARS ELECTRONICA
June 20 - 24 1995, Linz, Austria
Theme: Mythos Information; Welcome to the Net Worlds.
"Ars Electronica 95 will ask critical questions to dogmas and myths of
postmodern information society".
Info: Brucknerhaus, Untere Donaulande 7, A-4010 Linz, Austria
Tel: 43-732-7612244, Fax: 7612350
COMPUTER GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL '95
International Conference and Exhibition
June 25 - 30 1995, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Info: CGI 95 Secretariat,
Conference Office, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Tel: 44-0-113-233-6102, Fax: 44-0-113-233-6107
Email: rcsdmw@central.admin.leeds.ac.uk
THE INCIDENT
June 30 - July 2 1995, Fribourg, Switzerland.
An International symposium to examine art, technology and phenomena. See INL
#38. Info: The Incident, Casta Postale 120, CH-1700 Fribourg 1, Switzerland.
Tel: 41-37-222285, Fax: 226185, Email: 75337.206@compuserve.com
ACM SIGGRAPH 95
August 6 - 11 1995, Los Angeles, USA.
22nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Conference and exhibition.
Info: SIGGRAPH 95, Conference Management Smith, Bucklin & Associates, Inc.
401 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
Tel: 1-312-321-6830, Fax: 6876, Email: siggraph95@siggraph.org
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS IN MUSIC AND ARTIFICIAL